Administrators gav240z Posted May 3, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted May 3, 2018 This place has a nice man cave! https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-greensborough-128274294 The rest of the house is too clean looking for me. HomeBuiltByJeff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilltech Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 The man cave is too clean and clinical just like the rest of the house. IMO a piece of art for showing off rather than a home for living in. HomeBuiltByJeff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cozza Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Pop my 3 kids in there for 2 weeks and you’d have a different opinion. ? ScottyD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilltech Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Pop my 3 kids in there for 2 weeks and you’d have a different opinion. Mine too. That's the trouble, it's too ordered, just one thing left slightly out of place and it really stands out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators gav240z Posted May 4, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted May 4, 2018 Well I agree, that's why I like looking at grungy old factories. I looked at this 1 a year or so ago. https://goo.gl/photos/n2XzxLxW3SWAvMr9A It needed a LOT of work, but downstairs would have been the perfect man cave and upstairs would have been a cool warehouse apartment type living. The real problem was previous use contamination.. Estimate the cost to remediate the site would have been $300k+ I reckon.. MikeZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeZ Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Just before we moved, photo by the real estate agents. 6x7m but never enough room! gav240z and RAP260 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAP260 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Just before we moved, photo by the real estate agents. 6x7m but never enough room! LowRes_02.jpg Firstly, nice shed Secondly, is your car painted the original 305 light blue? Cheers, Rob MikeZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAllen Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Gary, you shamed me into cleaning up a bit. It still isn't perfect but i think you can see the improvement. I even found the Bolwell. I knew I put it somewhere but just couldn't remember where. Ignore the body bags - Just a little money I make on the side helping out the Comancheros. gav240z 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightmaster240z Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 (edited) soon to be my cave Edited May 4, 2018 by Lightmaster240z gav240z and PB260Z 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeZ Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Firstly, nice shed Secondly, is your car painted the original 305 light blue? Cheers, Rob Thanks Rob, the PO had a respray done and so have I (insurance claim). This is the original colour but it might be slightly off if it was colour matched and not mixed up to the original paint code. To be honest I never thought to ask! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators gav240z Posted May 4, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted May 4, 2018 IMG_2845-5.jpg soon to be my cave Gangster! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators gav240z Posted May 4, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted May 4, 2018 Ok so I've googled for hours trying to find this video again with no joy, but I feel I'm closer now that I've found this glimpse of it. (at 21-22 seconds in). I recall it was a Ford owner who built this warehouse looking garage from scratch using recycled building materials and it looks like an old factory as a result. I'd love to see the full episode again as it's my dream form of workshop / garage. Not sure where the garage is, but I have a feeling it's out Lilydale Victoria sort of direction. *Edit think I found it, but I'm sure there was a segment where they talked about the garage itself. MikeZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAP260 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Thanks Rob, the PO had a respray done and so have I (insurance claim). This is the original colour but it might be slightly off if it was colour matched and not mixed up to the original paint code. To be honest I never thought to ask! Thanks Rob, the PO had a respray done and so have I (insurance claim). This is the original colour but it might be slightly off if it was colour matched and not mixed up to the original paint code. To be honest I never thought to ask! Thanks for your reply Mike, much appreciated. Your car looks awesome. Really starting to fall for the colour. Mine was originally that colour, but was resprayed to the blue you see in the attached picture. Clearly a blue with more silver. I'm hunting down as many pictures of the original code, before I commit to a respray. Cheers, Rob MikeZ and gav240z 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators gav240z Posted May 25, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted May 25, 2018 This had serious man cave potential. https://www.realcommercial.com.au/property-industrial+warehouse-vic-footscray-502780318 Unfortunately for me, out of my price range. Just replace the motorcycle on the wall with some old S30Z panels like this old Porka. RB26DETT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM-TOY Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 This is a epic house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialp3 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 The video below is what I would love to build, replace the Ferrari with the 240 on it would be perfect. https://petrolicious.com/films/ferrari-bb-512-is-a-piece-of-art Put Datsun in search engine of this www and you find a number of good video's. JDM-TOY 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM-TOY Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 The video below is what I would love to build, replace the Ferrari with the 240 on it would be perfect. https://petrolicious.com/films/ferrari-bb-512-is-a-piece-of-art Put Datsun in search engine of this www and you find a number of good video's. Wow these guys have covered heaps of Datsuns. Will have a Sunday evening going through them all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators gav240z Posted May 27, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted May 27, 2018 The video below is what I would love to build, replace the Ferrari with the 240 on it would be perfect. https://petrolicious.com/films/ferrari-bb-512-is-a-piece-of-art Put Datsun in search engine of this www and you find a number of good video's. Hahaha couple of peas in a pod. I keep thinking of the Ferrari and house in Ferris Bueller's day off. As my inspiration for a house in the woods. But instead of the Ferrari I'll have a collection of S30z's. RAP260 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeZ Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 "The miles aren't coming off" OdinZ, gav240z and PB260Z 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmd Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 On 5/27/2018 at 4:28 PM, gav240z said: Hahaha couple of peas in a pod. I keep thinking of the Ferrari and house in Ferris Bueller's day off. As my inspiration for a house in the woods. But instead of the Ferrari I'll have a collection of S30z's. @gav240z for a price of a Sydney apartment, you probably can build a decent man cave in this to house all your s30z, you would need a decent ferry service though. https://www.realestate.com.au/news/uk-island-on-sale-for-700000/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators gav240z Posted July 5, 2018 Author Administrators Share Posted July 5, 2018 26 minutes ago, hmd said: @gav240z for a price of a Sydney apartment, you probably can build a decent man cave in this to house all your s30z, you would need a decent ferry service though. https://www.realestate.com.au/news/uk-island-on-sale-for-700000/ @hmd been done before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1600dave Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 One could argue that placing your Datsun collection only a few metres from a large body of salt water is perhaps tempting fate....... I've been tidying my man cave up a little over the last few weeks. I now have potentially the most expensive parts racking in the Datsun world - initial purchase cost was in excess of a $1 million. The two racks on either end started life as IBM data storage arrays, empty the racks, add some shelves, add some more shelves in between the racks, clean up your shed (and find you have WAY more cylinder heads / blocks / etc than you thought, plus a gearbox that you can't remember buying......) and I now have room to work in there again ! And even better than finding forgotten Datsun parts, I found a friend to keep me company on those long nights alone in the shed, looks like he's living on top of a cupboard in the darkest corners of the shed, using 180B SSS door trims as a bed. RAP260 and OdinZ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.A.R. Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 I don't believe it...! You've ACTUALLY cleaned up your shed, Dave OdinZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1600dave Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 I can actually move in there now. Feels good ! It all started because I'm about to build a new engine. But the engine stand had a blown up MX5 engine on it. And there was nowhere else to put the MX5 engine. So one thing led to another, and 3 weeks later it's tidier than its been in many years. Still haven't started building the engine though...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PB260Z Posted July 6, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 6, 2018 23 hours ago, 1600dave said: I can actually move in there now. Feels good ! It all started because I'm about to build a new engine. But the engine stand had a blown up MX5 engine on it. And there was nowhere else to put the MX5 engine. So one thing led to another, and 3 weeks later it's tidier than its been in many years. Still haven't started building the engine though...... And I wouldn’t mind betting that you found a few long forgotten treasures in the process Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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